AT HARDING
Bray is in his second season as a fulltime assistant coach after serving as a graduate assistant during the 2019 season. In 2022, Bray will serve as the fullbacks and quarterbacks coach.
In 2021, Bray's first season, Harding led the nation in rushing at 390.1 yards per game, and fullback Cole Chancey won the GAC rushing title with 1,441 rushing yards and 24 touchdowns.
Harding is 11-2 in Bray's time as an assistant coach, won the 2021 GAC championship and advanced to the 2021 NCAA Division II Super Region 3 semifinals.
PLAYING CAREER
Bray set a Harding record by starting 50 games at center in his career from 2015-18. In 2019, he became the first student-athlete from Harding named GAC Athlete of the Year. Bray won the Rimington Award as the top center in Division II. He also claimed First Team All-America honors by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) and the Don Hansen Football Committee. He became just the fourth player in program history to earn all-conference honors in all four seasons.
In his career, Bray contributed to the most successful four-year run in school history as Harding won 40 of the school-record 50 games he started in over that time. The Bisons qualified for the playoffs in each of his final three seasons. They reached the Super Region 3 final in 2016 and the national semifinals in 2017.
Off the field, he landed on the Google Cloud Academic All-District® Football Team in 2016 and he made the league's All-Academic team three straight years.
EDUCATION
Bray graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in health and kinesiology with a minor in biology in December 2018.
FAMILY
Bray is married to the former Chandler Little of Rogers, Arkansas.
COACHING EXPERIENCE
2021Â Â Harding, fullbacks coach
2019Â Â Harding, graduate assistant
PLAYING EXPERIENCE
2015-18Â Â Harding, offensive line
2011-14Â Â Rogers High School, offensive line
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